Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there is in any country, uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Thomas JeffersonTake more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.
Thomas JeffersonThe general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
Thomas JeffersonThe genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
Thomas JeffersonWe discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Thomas Jefferson